The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario has announced the shortlist for the annual Speaker’s Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: The Class: A Memoir of a Place, a Time and Us by Ken ... Read More »
July 15, 2024
McGill-Queen's University Press (MQUP) distribution, sales, and marketing operations will move to Combined Academic Publishers (CAP), a division of Mare Nostrum Group, in the following territories: U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, effective September ... Read More »
July 15, 2024
Canlit Responds, originally formed as the literary community's protest against charges laid against demonstrators who disrupted the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize over it's main sponsor's substantial investment in Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, has released ... Read More »
July 10, 2024
In an exclusive story published on July 7 by the Toronto Star’s Deborah Dundas and Betsy Powell, accompanied by a personal essay by Andrea Robin Skinner, revelations that Skinner was sexually abused by her stepfather, Gerald ... Read More »
July 10, 2024
Simon & Schuster Canada’s Brittany Lavery and Dutton’s Maya Ziv have acquired Canadian and U.S, rights respectively to internationally bestselling author Karma Brown’s horror debut The Mother. The novel is described as centering on an ... Read More »
July 9, 2024
Greystone Books editorial director Jennifer Croll has acquired world rights to Angela Sterritt’s Breakable. The nonfiction book is described as an investigation of how racism and colonialism cultivates harmful behaviours in men and how Indigenous ... Read More »
July 5, 2024
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) announced the shortlists for the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards on June 27. The awards highlight the best of Alberta book publishing as determined by industry professionals from ... Read More »
July 3, 2024
Governor General Mary Simon announced the 2024 appointments to the Order of Canada on June 27. The Order of Canada recognizes people across all sectors of society who have made extraordinary and sustained contributions to ... Read More »
June 27, 2024
Although each year there is grumbling about some of the arguments advanced to eliminate titles during the spring ritual of Canada Reads on CBC, there is one constant: no matter at what point a book ... Read More »
June 26, 2024
Nara Monteiro will be joining TouchWood Editions as editorial coordinator effective immediately. They are based ... Read More »
June 19, 2024
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